Ink blotter



June 21, 1932. u L RlKKQNl-:N 1,864,094

INK BLOTTER Filed Dec. ll, 1928 lll Patented June 21, 1932 PATENT OFFICE UUNO ILMARI RIKKONEN, 0F HELSINKI, FINLAND INK BLOTTER Application filed December 11, 1928, Serial No. 325,243, and in Finland November 8, 1928.

A blotter, to be practical must be easy to handle and the active part thereof should be quickly and conveniently renewable. In the blotter according to the present invention the aforesaid features are taken care of in a. siniple manner.

The presentinvention is characterized in that the body of the blotter, which is elliptical or near elliptical in section, is built up of paper wound on a suitable core in several layers which are then pressed together and pasted so as to form a comparatively solid pasteboard body. The blotting paper proper is wound on this body in as many layers as desired, the different layers being pasted together at the ends. After removing the core, the body may be cut to lengths corresponding to the desired width of theblotter. In this way it is possible to apply piece work methods to the manufacture of blotters from the entire width of the sheets of paper used; furthermore, the blotters possess the great advantage of being exceedingly elastic because the' body is made up of a continuous strip of paper without any weak joints whatever. Vhen a layer of blotting paper is used up same is torn off, Whereas the pasting at the ends prevents the other layers from unwind- In order to prevent the upper side of the blotter, viz. that one which comes against the hand, from becoming soiled, thisside is covered with a plate made out of pasteboard, Celluloid etc., the plate corresponding to the curvature of the body. The plate is held in place by a rubber band or the like, the band pressing the plate against the body in such a way that it is easily, at will, pushed to the other side of the blotter.

The accompanying drawing is a perspective tained by a rubber band or clip 6, which eX- tends transversely through the'body and is at the ends suitably secured to the edges of the plate.'

I claim;

An ink blotter comprising a strip of heavy paper material wound upon itself in a substant-ially elliptical formation, the Wound portions of said paper being glued together to form a self-supporting body, a relatively long continuous strip of blotting paper wound. in several superposed layers about said body, a protecting plate substantially covering one of the exposed faces of said wound blotting paper, and an elastic band fixed to said plate and encircling said body and blotting paper whereby the plate may be slid to the other exposed face of the blotter While being constantly urged in closed Contact therewith by action of said elastic band.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

UUNO ILMARI RIKKONEN. 

